Millionth bottle of sparkling

March 4, 2012

Our millionth bottle of sparkling wine recently rolled off our production lines. Wineries from every wine region of New Zealand have contributed to this total to both our sparkling lines in Marlborough and Hawkes Bay Read more

Chinese Dry Goods visit

December 16, 2011

We have just returned from visiting a Chinese glass plant, and a Chinese screwcap plant, learning a great deal about the issues that we have been experiencing on our production lines, but also examining the... Read more

Grape Juice Concentrate

December 5, 2011

Juiceworks is a specialist supplier of grape juice concentrate to the NZ wine industry, and enables you to supply EU countries while complying with their requirements that you cannot use cane sugar to sweeten your... Read more

Sparkling Trophy

November 13, 2011

The Wineworks Trophy for Sparkling Wines has been awarded to NZ Wine Cellars for their Sounds Methode Traditionnelle 2008, at the Air NZ Wine Awards this week - a little ripper of a wine made by Jo Gear. We are... Read more

New Encouragement from Wine Industry for Top Trades Apprentices

November 1, 2011

Two new scholarships of $1,000 each are being offered to EIT Trades School students by New Zealand’s leading wine bottling company, WineWorks. Today, 18 students from EIT’s Mechanical and Electrical Engineering... Read more

Excise payment relief

July 17, 2011

Small wineries have been advised as receiving some relief on paperwork, having to return excise payments to Customs only once or twice a year depending on size. We have been liaising with the Government and NZ... Read more

Bubbles bought to Hawkes Bay wines

May 24, 2011

Bubbles have been brought to Bay wines with a new charmat facility at the Wineworks' bottling plant in Hastings. For any questions on how to get contract bottling of your sparkling wine completed, just email Tim Read more

First 2011 vintage wine bottled!

May 10, 2011

2011's first wine has hit the market fresh from our bottling lines today! This makes this year amongst the earliest ever for getting wine out to market, which is a great sign for the industry as a whole. Read more

Disaster Recovery

April 30, 2011

Earthquakes, floods and power outages remind us that you cannot afford to disrupt your wine bottling program. Wineworks has done three things about this: 1) We have put together a disaster management plan that... Read more

PET Bottle development

April 15, 2011

PET Bottles continue to be of interest, and not only has VIP Packaging released their very smart new technology in their new range to NZ wineries, but Waipak continue to develope a range of innovative designs that... Read more